Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 12:43:49 +0100 From: Herbert Feutl <herbert.feutl@gmx.at> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Discovered a new browser... Message-ID: <4204B175.4020407@gmx.at> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.58.0501220328220.12163@nuumen.pair.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.58.0501220328220.12163@nuumen.pair.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 hello did someone know a real good mp3player which needs nearly no resources an looks usable? herbert Tom Huppi schrieb: > > I have several old machines here and there, and developments in X > and current browsers are really starting to hurt. I remember > fondly the days when the open-source crowd refered to Microsoft > software as 'bloatware'. > > What is really killing me are large pages like Python's html > documentation which I keep locally. I just discovered a solution > for _that_ problem which I thought I'd share and which I doubt > that everyone is aware of. It's a browser called 'dillo'. It's > written in C, and it seems extraordinarily fast. It's > capabilities are quite limited (doesn't even do frames correctly), > but it's still very usable for a lot of things. In fact, I kinda > like how it does Google's 'groups' frames page. It just puts the > right frame down below. It also seems more stable than 'Oprah' > which, when I tried it several years ago, was *the* most unstable > thing I've ever tried to run on FreeBSD with the possible > exception of the windows CAD program 'microstation95' running > through 'wine' :) > > Anyway, it might be worth looking at. It can be built from the > ports collection and tried out in the time it takes to start > mozilla. I can almost say that *literally*! > > Thanks, > > - Tom > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) iQEVAwUBQgSxddNyNgDoRe9BAQL5swgAp+TShgJNLM5V4TRbWYQtQcE2+JBs3bNA W1biPNgMOA4V1pOMCbvzf2lBxUtNWuPaT2DANoJLtfZOCcy9wx6sYIoY7AhLQJjs zmQ6Nyzk/3AwiXxt0Rh0fr8uWzYWeMtISV/1GWY9kNIsBKPwG4pVqk9A/g1DJR9G xmGM4qWA+1Yg/fLksb2LN4Ky+7YGFUNs2L/uEEjxVR9oq0hhFJ8J0rK7Hm4sRrfI MFP3gHzdm/V4Fby+pCpMvxXBQ1TCw/jL1EVto/iiQMZSdPI5AvgZSkLcRMaVGK4y vGb8Ots5l3Vz9QJULcPeHc62ZfSu75V2TSJPV8dZGzBUoEl4PjG9pA== =xVMv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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